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The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison (v. 1)
The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison - v. 1 Author:Joseph Addison Volume: v. 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1765 Original Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be t... more »ypos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A Song. For St. Cecilia's Day at Oxford, E Cilia, whofe exalted hymns With joy and wonder fill the bleft, In choirs of warbling feraphims Known and diftinguifh'd from the reft, Attend, harmonious faint, and fee Thy vocal fons of harmony; Attend, harmonious faint, and hear our pray'rsj Enliven all our earthly airs, [thee: And, as thou fmg'ft thy God, teach us to fing of Tune ev'ry firing and ev'ry tongue, Be thou the Mufe and fubjcfl of our fong. II. Let all Cecilia's praife proclaim, Employ the echo in her name. Hark Hark how the flutes and trumpets raife, At bright Cecilia's name, their lays; The organ labours in her praife. Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace, From ev'ry voice the tuneful accents fly, In foaring trebles now it rifes high, And now it finks, and dwells upon the bafc. Cecilia's name through all the notes we fing, The work of ev'ry fldlful tongue, The found of ev'ry trembling firing, The found and triumph of our fong. III. For ever confecrate the day, To mufic and Cecilia; Mufic, the greateft good that mortals know, And all of hcav'n we have below. Mufic can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love; With unfufpeded eloquence can move, And manage all the man with fecret art. When Orpheus ftrikes the trembling lyre, The dreams ftand ftill, the ftones admire; The The lift'ning favages advance, The wolf and lamb around him trip, The bears in aukward meafures l...« less